"Commentary from P.M. Carpenter"

July 10, 2017

"An uneasy, lonely, awkward figure"

Within minutes of my posting this morning that Trump, in his speeches, "is merely blathering the views of speechwriters," I watched an Australian news video (apparently it's gone viral) that contained the same sentiment: "[Some] confuse the speeches written for Trump with the thoughts of the man himself…. But it's the unscripted Trump that's real: a man who barks out bile in 140 characters," etc. etc.

And that was the gentlest thought the Australian reporter had to offer:

I have an MLK-like dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day all of this nation's media will rise up and live out the true meaning of its journalistic creed: "We hold this truth to be self-evident, that Donald Trump is an insufferable abomination."

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"An uneasy, lonely, awkward figure"

Within minutes of my posting this morning that Trump, in his speeches, "is merely blathering the views of speechwriters," I watched an Australian news video (apparently it's gone viral) that contained the same sentiment: "[Some] confuse the speeches written for Trump with the thoughts of the man himself…. But it's the unscripted Trump that's real: a man who barks out bile in 140 characters," etc. etc.

And that was the gentlest thought the Australian reporter had to offer:

I have an MLK-like dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day all of this nation's media will rise up and live out the true meaning of its journalistic creed: "We hold this truth to be self-evident, that Donald Trump is an insufferable abomination."